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Starting a thread on my current breakout mods. This has been a long process as I'm missing both my road glide and this bike. I took some inspiration from another member and got ahold of a rocker takeoff fender and cut it up. Been riding it since last season in this shape with three long term goals...a swingarm mounted sissy bar, upswept pipes, and a Springer front end.
So far, a rocker fever was cut down with a conduit run underneath for an LED light strip. The seat is a standard Softail bobber seat from mother road customs. I had to do some mods to make it work and I still want to rework the pan to better cover the wiring. Bars are casino menace apes with thunderbike risers. This is more or less where I started.
IF do you want a bobber, softail rocker is better choice.
Rocker is the exact same frame. Only difference is the front end, tank, fender, and cosmetics.
Editing to add I think the tank on the breakout looks better for a bobber than the rocker. Would be far more to change on a rocker than the $300 in parts I changed on my breakout to date.
God, why didn't you chop up something a little older?
Nothing I did to my bike is irreversible or permanent. Incidentally, the swing arm was a backup I bought specifically for this weld (original is in my garage). Bought it for $120 shipped from a part shop in either KY or TN (cant remember exactly where).. Story was the original owner pulled it off new for a chrome swing arm. Either way it was much cheaper than $900 for a new one. Regardless, if I ever wanted to sell, I just put the original parts back on and kick it out the door.
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Breakout bobber build
